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This murder comes only days after Mashal Khan was lynched to death in Mardan also on charges of blasphemy. PHOTO: Reuters.

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Fazal Abbas was officially booked under Pakistan's strict blasphemy law in 2004.

He had fled the country then and had only recently come back home.

Women told cops that they couldn't kill Abbas in 2004 as we were too young then.

A 45-year-old man accused of committing blasphemy over a decade ago was shot dead in Pakistan this week.The man was killed by three sisters who entered his faith-healer father's home in Sialkot district's Pasrur city on the pretext of getting the father to pray for them,

A 45-year-old man accused of committing blasphemy over a decade ago was shot dead in Pakistan this week.

The man was killed by three sisters who entered his faith-healer father's home in Sialkot district's Pasrur city on the pretext of getting the father to pray for them, Dawn reported.

Once they were inside the home, the burqa-clad sisters asked the father if his son, Fazal Abbas, had returned to Pakistan from abroad.

When Abbas walked out, the sisters opened fire, killing him on the spot.

According to Dawn, the women then raised jubilant slogans, proclaiming that they had eliminated a blasphemer.

Abbas, Dawn reported, was officially booked under Pakistan's strict blasphemy law in 2004. He had fled the country then and had only recently come back home.

The women, who were detained by police, reportedly told the cops that they couldn't kill Abbas in 2004 "because we were too young then".

STUDENT KILLED

The latest killing over alleged blasphemy in Pakistan comes close on the heels of a mass media student of the Abdul Wali Khan University student being lynched to death in Mardan.

Mashal Khan, who was accused of promoting blasphemous content on social media, was beaten and stoned until his skull caved in.

BLASPHEMY IN PAKISTAN

Blasphemy is a serious offence in Pakistan, with punishment ranging from fines to the death penalty.

The Pakistan Supreme Court has taken a serious view of the matter and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif recently ordered that social media websites be cleansed of blasphemous content.

According to a calculation performed by Reuters , Pakistan has seen at least 66 murders over alleged blasphemy since 1990.